anyone know what this is ?

[Trx250r180]

2 big winches ,looks like maybe for logging ,is mounted to part of an old truck frame ,part of a yarder maybe ?View attachment 271270

 

[closetoreality]

2 big winches ,looks like maybe for logging ,is mounted to part of an old truck frame ,part of a yarder maybe ?View attachment 271270

That a tractor lift you got?

 

[hammerlogging]

2 big winches ,looks like maybe for logging ,is mounted to part of an old truck frame ,part of a yarder maybe ?View attachment 271270

wait for humptulips, he probably logged 24 million feet with one, knows who designed it, and why he rolled one off a mountain only to use it again 8 years later.

 

[paccity]

nice little drum set. get some pic's around the frame and sides of the drums.

 

[Trx250r180]

I will get some better pics tomarro morning, the guy i got it from called it a donkey,was using it somehow as a pile driver he said.

 

[2dogs]

Looks like part of a high lead setup.

 

[floyd]

Run the cable thru a block on top of a tower & one has a pile driver.

 

[Sport Faller]

That's really cool, and like a lot of the machinery from that era, it looks like it's main fuel is fingers and hands

 

[Trx250r180]

heres some more images ,says western machinery co / portland oregon in 2 places View attachment 271389View attachment 271390View attachment 271391View attachment 271392

 

[Trx250r180]

a couple more pics View attachment 271393View attachment 271394View attachment 271395

 

[funky sawman]

I would say thats part of an old Idaho jammer, kinda like a yarder but not LOL

 

[funky sawman]

I see those twin drum setups mounted on the back of extended tailframe skidders, usually running a no lift butt riggen setup. Some of them have a spar so they can have a gyppo hi lead :wink2:

 

[Humptulips]

Just a small double drum yarder. A lot of them got mounted on old trucks with an a frame on the back. Kind of before my time. I think they quit making them in the 50s.

The picture titled Little Tugger is an old Fordson. I've only seen them in the bone yard. Skagit, Clyde and Western Machinery made versions. My Dad said they weren't much but they were cheap. You get what you pay for I guess.

 

[alleyoop]

with that light frame i would say its out of a crain or small loader a lot of ceder maggets used them a lot and they worked good for that ,and it could of came off a ship.but not made for a yarder,,,alley

 

[Trx250r180]

i talked to the guy i got it from ,he said years ago it had floats on the sides and somehow they were putting pilings in for docks at the lake by here ,i guess they cant put the wood pilings in anymore ,have to be composite now so it was retired ,i have seen similar setups on back of old 50's trucks ,my step dad used to have a yarder on a truck chassis ,old outdated stuff now

 

[slowp]

This old Skagit was restored by a group of local boys and they towed it in the Logger's Jubilee Parade.

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